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- Amiga users, we need your help!
-
- We (a group of Amiga developers) would like to write a small
- diagnostic utility that is able to identify all expansion
- devices in an Amiga. This would be a very useful tool for
- service centers and for developers debugging and testing
- their soft- and hardware on someone else's machine, since
- you would be able to identify boards without having to take
- apart that Amiga. Since the list of manufacturer numbers is
- - for some unknown reason - not publicly accessible and the
- list of product numbers is maintained by the manufacturers,
- we are trying to find them out ourselves.
-
- Please run this CLI-program on as many Amigas as possible!
-
- The output might, for example, look like this:
-
- $00E90000-$00E9FFFF: 2017/008 R D140 gvpat.device
- $00200000-$009FFFFF: 2017/009 M E740
-
- Each line usually corresponds to one board in your system,
- but sometimes one board really behaves as several expansion
- devices (e.g. hard disk controller plus RAM expansion). The
- boards should be listed from the MPU slot to the leftmost
- Zorro-slot (at least under 1.2 and 1.3, not sure about 2.0),
- Some expansion-boards do not behave like Zorro devices and
- therefore might not show up in the list.
-
- The first column shows you the address-range of the board,
- the two numbers after that are the manufacturer and the
- product number. These might be followed by a letter. "M"
- means this is a RAM expansion, "R" is used for boards that
- can be equipped with a boot-ROM, so it's probably an
- autobooting hard disk controller or something similar. The
- two bytes after that are the "er_Type" and "er_Flags" field.
- If the program is able to find a boot-ROM or a driver for
- that board, it will tell you about its name.
-
- Complete this list with the names of the boards in your
- system and their respective manufacturers and mail it to:
-
- cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel
-
- If you are able to match the entries in the list generated
- by above program with the boards in your system or if you
- have further information on this subject - even better!
-
- Thanks for your help,
-
- Ralph
-
- cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel
-